Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 20

20 DECATUR HERALD SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1918. DECATUR HERALD HIGH LIVING COST ABSORBS TIPS ONCE THINGS MUSICAL IN DECATUR AND ELSEWHERE SUGARLESS CAJfDY some heavy weight, like bag of sal Below is a simple recipe for sugar- for 24 hours. Cut Into squares, less candy, easily made: Raisin, nuts, and Honey bars FOURTEEN CENT MEAL. 2 cups raisins, 1 -cup nuts, ground in i The T- M- c- A- Easle Hut of Lon. food chopper, i cup of honey.

don provides a satisfying meal for Pour into a pan, lay sheet of greas-jthe sailors and soldiers for fourteen ed paper over it and pack it under, cents. SO FREELY AWARDED course which the conservatory arranges each year, might have been SCHUMANN -HEINK IS HONORARY COLONEL AMPARITO FARRAR SAILS FOR FRANCE abandoned. Business men objected to Prima Donna Here Visiting With Friends Bellboys, Waiters and Barbers Find Largess Conspicuous by Absence PROF. HYDINGER ARRIVES SOON OF THE U. S.

ARMY TO SING TO BOYS Says All Americans Like Goes Under Auspices Of the suggestion that the- series be abandoned this year on account of war conditions and said that it ought to be conducted this year of all years. Flans are now being made for the course. The six. rooms which are used by the kindergarten of the conservatory are bjing re-decorated. Tinting and guilding of the walls is being done new.

Registration at Overseas Theater League of Y. M. C. A. Tipping is a lost art.

Bell boys, waiters, barbers and others to whom it was customary in days before the war to give tips, report that the practise is one of the past. What the laws passed by the various states of the Union have failed to do. the war is slowly but surely accomplishing. Those who eat in restaurants re Music and All Soldiers Need It. Madame Schumann-Heink is now an honorary colonel In the American army.

The most popular of concert Conservatory to be Held September 16 SPRINGFIELD WILL HAVE FINE SEASON Amparito Farrar the young American soprano, who has been appearing in the various camps and navy yards and who has done excellent work for the Liberty loan. Thrift Stamp drive and recruiting for the port that the high cost of food makes Amateur Muxlcal Club Secures Fa- Prof. F. L. Hydinger, the new head of the piano department at Millikin Conservatory of Music, will arrive in Decatur about the middle of September.

Professor Hydinger has been a Red Cross nurses, has been engaged. moan French ArtiKtH For First Kvenl. singers, she has given herself without thoughts of giving the waiter a tip pay to war service. She is received 8eem folly. "In the days when man could get a good meal for 3d with the greatest enthusiasm in all cents he did not mind adding the oth-j the camps where she sings, and thejer 15 cents as a tip to the waiter, but i cheers that ring from 20,000 throats witn the meal costing 50 cr 60 tell how straight her message has'P" bf1n, mor and more scarce," carried to the hearts of the boys insaid a waiter in one of the leading: khaki.

i restaurants when sked if tips were Keens the Mind Clean as common as ever. And Schumann Heink loves the sol-. Heavy Demand for War Work As usual, the Amateur Musical club of Springfield has secured some of the best musical talent In the coun for the summer season in France. She is among the first artists to be sent under the auspices of the Overseas Theater league of the T. M.

C. A. Gone Several Months. Miss Farrar will be gone three or four months and has planned a series of concerts" which will he held in try for the season. Jacques Thibaud, a famous French violiniste, and Ga-brielle Gills, soprano soloist, from the Opera in Paris, will appear November 6, in the state arsenal.

Mademoiselle any sort of building available for Gills is sent out by the French gov dier boys. She says that music cheers i Another thing which contributes to them and keeps them clean and good, the falling off in the number of tips "American soldiers have a peculiar Is the large number of war charities need for music. They have been ed- and investments which are asking for ucated in a way to keep their hearts tne spare dimes and quarters of the and souls open to all that is fine and (business man. wonderful. The money which was formerly giv- ernment at the request of the Minister des Beaux Arts, under the aus pices of the French-American Musical association.

She Is a lyric soprano who has been very successful in Paris and London. Arthur Hackett, tenor, will give a whojly American program December 9, In the Christian church. A chorus trained by Professor Carpenter of Springfield College of Music will give avconcert May 2, in the arsenal. The four afternoon programs will be announced later. Kudolph Ganz.

He studied eurhythmies in the Dalcroze school In France and has taught in Albion college and the Columbia School of Music. Prof. Hydinger has taken the Gher residence, 312 South Edward street, for the coming year. Mr. and Mrs.

Hydinger who have been living in Chicago were here a few days last week on their way to Iowa where they will visit until the conservatory opens. They will come directly from Iowa to their new home. Registration at the conservatory will be held September 16, but many tudents have already enrolled. Examination for ScholnTKhips. The scholarship examination for pupils who have never studied at the conservatory will be held September 12-14.

These are competitive examinations and will mean a considerable financial aid in the musical education of those who qualify. The examination In piano work will be hejd at 9 o'clock Monday September 12. in voice, at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, and In Tlolin. at o'clock Wednesday morn-; lng, September 14. I Arttsln' Serlex Aa Uffunl.

Except for the encouragement of buslners men, the Artists' series the purpos. Miss Farrar wants to get as near the fighting line as possible. "I want to put joy in their hearts as they go over the top for the honor of their great and glorious country," says the little prima donna, "and I want to bring them comfort when they come back wounded or for first aid. I consider my work just as much first aid aa the medical treatment and I hope the medical attendants will let me treat their mind and spirit while they administer more material necessities fot their bodies." Miss Farrar would like to stay in France but must return to the United States to fill engagements on two tours. "Every American musician." says to the bell boy and the waiter, now she.

"The taunt that the American is goes to the United States treasury in a dollar man, that he thinks only of 'many cases for the purchase of war, making money, springs from the in- savings stamps, or to the Red Cross; famy of ignorance. The beauty of boxes or turned over to the Army i the land about us in these United fund or to the Knights of Columbus. States of itself inspires to music. I Cut Half or Third I Even the wildest American desert is Waiters report that before the war i instinct with it in the magic of its it was possible to make seven or I poetry and greatness. The coloring of eight, and sometimes ten dollars aj the desert at dawn and when the sun I week in tips, but if one can make one I goes down, makes the very heart sing.

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Rolled oats, barley flour and wheat flour makes a loaf slightly dark in color but light and fluffy. The Future Salmon Situation The Government has commandeered practically everything. We can offer you No. 1 tall fancy Red Alaska. dozen $3.85 Good Pink, dozen $2.75 Imperial Prunes Largest and finest that grow, 5-lb.

bag $1.30 Grape Juice You cannot beat our price. The juice is sweet. Grape Juice, pints, 2 dozen, per case It is wonders such as these and a time it is unusual. thousand others that build up in "I do not think that the waiters in American men and women a taste for the larger cities are affected by the music. war in this way as much as those in HERBERT'S NEW OPERA.

Victor Herbert has collaborated with Edward C. Carpenter in writing the light opera "The House That Built" which will appear this fall on Broadway. They have previously produced "The Cinderella Man" and "The Three Bears," Herbert's greatest success has been "Babes in Toyland." MISS rtlYR.XA SHARI.OW. Prima donna of Chicago Grand Opera company, is the guest ot June Ewing. Miss Sharlow has sung in Decatur a number of times, and her many friends here -are watching her rise in grand opera with keen interest.

She has appeared with such artists as Galli-Curci, Geraldine Farrar, Melba and Muratore. Uncle Sam's Bandmaster Is Taking Time Off Not HiKlibrovr Music towns of the size of Decatur, said "I do not try to give the boys high- one man yesterday. "Those who for- i brow music. I sing them the popu- merly tipped In the larger cities do lar songs, the ones they all know and not notice what they are paying for can sing the chorus of with me. If the meal, and the cost is not so ma- you coulld hear one of those great terial to them, but in the smaller i camps of boys singing with all their town this is not true." I souls, you would feel as I do, that music is magic.

It stirs me almost I jn a sodler's heart when he hears! unbearably to hear it, 20,000 voices them. I lifted in joy and courage. I go wher- i yye must carry music to the battle ever I am ordered by the Government front as those fearful guns will per- i I have gone from coast to coast, from mt Us," says Madame Schumann- North to South, in camps, in hospitals, Heink, and adds, "I will go to France for the Liberty loan, the Red Cross, to sjng, for the boys, but if need be the Thrift Stamp drive. nurse them or scrub for them. I'm along without any leader, playing with perfect rhythm their irresistible Sousa music.

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He has re-assembled his old band, and is making one of his famous tours as in the days before the' war. He has organized his forces at Great Lakes well enough to leave them for awhile. Any one who has had the thrill of watching Jackie band swing down the street with the peculiar rhythm that is Sousa's trademark, will not doubt that it is a powerful factor in recruiting. Although he has trained dozens of young men for assistant conductors, these bands are so steeped in the Sousa methods that it is not an unusual sight to see them marching TOMATOES xou wonaer pernaps vwiai i not offering myself as a prima donna, song that the boys like best. It is but as a woman who wants to do her Week's Popular Records one that critics are apt to speak utmost for her country.

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